Author: Lyman, Mel
Title: Avatar. Supplement Only, to Issue #23. April 12-25, 1968
Description: Cambridge, Avatar Incorporated, Publisher, 1968. Tabloid. INSERT ONLY.Tabloid newspaper format. Illustrations throughout. Avatar was a Boston area underground newspaper, founded in 1967 by Mel Lyman and his followers at the Fort Hill Community, or Lyman Family, a counterculture commune (or cult, depending on perspective) in the Roxbury area of Boston. Besides publishing the usual counterculture perspective on local and national news, the newspaper also served as a mouthpiece for Lyman's and the Fort Hill Community's philosophy: a quasi-religious and mystical thought drawing on Lyman's unique view of astrological, spiritual and occult history. Mel Lyman originally gained fame as a folk musician. This with a lot of navel gazing, astrology etc. Inside front cover a word tribute to Martin Luther King. GOOD condition. Horizontal fold crease present. General toning and minor soiling. Minor wrinkling and creasing. A few small tears along the extremities. Good .

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